Date: Wednesday 13th May 2020 (13.05.20)
Good morning P4A, P4B and P4/3! We hope you are ready to have a go at your
tasks for today. We are really enjoying connecting with you all on Microsoft
Teams (Mrs Wren’s P3’s can e-mail their work).
Today, please try to log on to Teams and share your learning about:
The human body – comic strip task
Parents, if you wish to contact us privately, please e-mail:
Miss Baxter, Mr Galloway, Mrs Mavor and Mrs Wren.
Literacy Activity
Learning Intention (What we are learning today) Success Criteria (How can I show that I
have learned and understood)
• To read a text and show understanding
• To create a comic strip
• To read a text aloud confidently
• To show understanding of the
immune system and its function
• To create a comic strip using
pictures, captions, speech bubbles
or thought bubbles
Explanation of activity Suggested Resources
• Go to this website and read the comic strip
about the immune system:
• https://dekkocomics.com/issue-3-atoms-
chemistry-1
• Discuss with someone at home how the immune
system fights infections and helps to make you
feel better if you are sick.
• Create your own comic strip showing what
happens when someone gets sick and how the
immune system helps to fight infections. You
may wish to use this video about the immune
system to help if you’ve forgotten your learning
from Monday:
• https://kidshealth.org/en/kids/ismovie.html?W
T.ac=k-ra
• The help below shows the features of a comic
strip to help you.
• Comic strip on the website
• Paper, coloured pencils or
technology to create comic strip
• You may use technology or be creative in your
approach to this task.
• Please share on Microsoft Teams.
Numeracy Activity
Learning Intention (What we are learning today) Success Criteria (How can I show that I
have learned and understood)
• To calculate change. • I can work out how much change is
needed.
• I can use the written strategies I
have learned to solve the problem.
Explanation of activity Suggested Resources
• Play word problem warm up game.
• Have a go at the mild, spicy or hot challenges
below. Work out how much change you will get
from buying different items.
• You might want to use an empty number line or
chimney sums to help you to add the totals. You
can also do a chimney sum to help you work out
how much change you will get. Here is some help
on doing a money chimney sum:
http://teach.files.bbci.co.uk/skillswise/ma26mo
ne-e3-f-subtracting-money.pdf
• Money warm up game:
https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/res
ources/resource/44/solve-2-step-
money-problems-
• Mild – level 2
• Spicy – level 5
• Hot – level 9
• Mild, spicy or hot challenges
below.
• Need a reminder on how to do
borrowing or regrouping on
chimney sums? Watch this video
to help:
https://www.khanacademy.org/ma
th/arithmetic/arith-review-add-
subtract/arith-review-regrouping-
3-dig/v/regrouping-twice-when-
subtracting-three-digit-numbers
Other Curricular Activity
Learning Intention (What we are learning
today)
Success Criteria (How can I show that I have learned
and understood)
• To be able to carry out a science
experiment.
• I can follow instructions.
• I can carry out a science experiment.
• I can create art through science.
• I can make observations.
• I can provide feedback.
Explanation of activity Suggested Resources
• A science experiment about
different particles in liquids.
• The science experiment slides.
• Equipment needed: a bowl, ½ cup of milk,
washing-up liquid soap, cotton bud, food
colouring (more than one colour).
Other Suggested Activities for Today: Explore patterns in nature
This is such a simple way to inspire awareness and awe about the astoundingly beautiful and
amazing patterns in nature! Choose a leaf, flower, pinecone, stick or stone and bring it home to
examine. If you can’t get outside, look online or find a picture. Take time to observe and talk about
the patterns you see. Why might these patterns exist? Then draw/recreate the patterns.
Literacy task – Features of a comic strip
Mild – change task
Spicy – change task
Hot – change task
Science Experiment
SPICY – Science investigation write-up report
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